I have to be honest with you, I would have figured it would be somebody like Hillary, but apparently not:
An amusing illustration of the whole point. I sent the Hitler quote on page 363 (about Christianity’s slow death) to some friends of mine and asked them to guess who said it. The first person to respond’s first thought was John Lennon, but he went with Hitler. And thus your point, sometimes it is hard to tell the rhetoric of the two apart. And there is a reason for that.
Yes. That reason is not, as initially seems obvious, that your friends are stupid, but it is in fact that John Lennon = Hitler. Everything’s so clear to me now! The Berlin bunker was the original bed-in, the Hitler moustache the original John Lennon glasses, Das Valkyrie the original Imagine. I’m thinking Eichman was Ringo.
(via the Gayatollah of liberal fascism)
January 31, 2008 at 10:17 am
I wish I got paid to write crap like that.
“I talked to a few of my friends, and we came to the conclusion that I am awsome.”
Actually, that sounds eerily like a Megan McArdle column.
January 31, 2008 at 10:39 am
One time I emailed a snippet from one of my blog posts to a friend and they asked if the words belonged to God as passed along by the Archangel Gabriel.
And there is a reason for that.
January 31, 2008 at 10:40 am
B-b-but, I have it on good authority that John Lennon would have been a conservative if he’d only lived.
January 31, 2008 at 10:50 am
That Lennon=Hitler thing is just so brilliant that it just has to be another LGM-type Jonah setup. Actually, my guess as to who the quote was from would have been John McCain.
But that just proves Jonah’s original point.
January 31, 2008 at 10:55 am
I feel all this attention to Goldberg is a little unfair. Lee Siegle isn’t going to mock himself, is he?
January 31, 2008 at 10:58 am
I blame postmodernism (Pomo for the hip and capitalized as in “the Left”), a mental addler even worse than acid rock. The Liberal Fascist may even “imagine” themselves to be conservative.
January 31, 2008 at 11:12 am
Jonah Goldberg is bigger than Jesus! Literally, anyway.
January 31, 2008 at 11:45 am
If the whiteman is the jew of liberal fascism, does that mean that as a Jew I can eat bacon now? Because I hear that it’s pretty tasty. And I’ve always wanted to try lobster, as well. And shrimp. Is lobster stuffed with shrimp and wrapped in bacon something that exists? Because that’s what I would like to try.
January 31, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Well, I’m thinkin’ J. Edgar Hoover is the Hitler of Closeted Conservative Cocksuckers.
January 31, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Lee Siegle isn’t going to mock himself, is he?
No he isn’t.
But if he did, he’d mock himself with a freshness and vitality that you blogofascist sheep, despite your youth, could never dream of replicating.
Oh…and buy
myhis book!January 31, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Pete Best is the Rudolf Hess of Liberal Fascism.
Brian Epstein is the Ernst Röhm of Liberal Fascism.
George Martin is the Albert Speer of Liberal Fascism.
Yoko Ono is the Leni Riefenstahl of Liberal Fascism.
Collect the Whole Set!
January 31, 2008 at 1:12 pm
…but John Lennon wrote the #7 most conservative rock song, according to the NRO.
January 31, 2008 at 2:06 pm
OK, but who was the walrus?
January 31, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I suppose this makes Michael Nesmith Mussolini, then.
January 31, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I suppose this makes Michael Nesmith Mussolini, then.
Did he get the Last Train to Clarksville to run on time?
January 31, 2008 at 3:30 pm
But he didn’t mean to say that Lennon is a Nazi….sheesh.
January 31, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Imagine there’s no Pantload. It’s easy if you try.
January 31, 2008 at 6:04 pm
OK, but who was the walrus?
Uh….Jonah Goldberg?
January 31, 2008 at 8:55 pm
But wait a second, why would the friends of people who read Jonah Goldberg books be stupid?
Unless…
January 31, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I am currently standing aside a pyre of flaming Vinyl. It was less then twelve hours ago that I learned of the the true meaning of “Beatlemania.” The flthy Harrison was always a culprit of something in my eyes with his fauning over lesser colonies and his ringing, fucking sitar.
February 1, 2008 at 9:43 am
And McCartney is the Joseph Goebbels of Liberal Fascism.
But what is Ringo…
February 1, 2008 at 11:59 am
I declare Michael Hutchence to be the Nicolae Ceausescu of et cetera.
And I freely concede that, even if I could come up with something ten times as clever, #15 would still own my ass.
February 1, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Ringo Starr is the Baldur von Schirach of Liberal Fascism.
Cynthia Lennon is the Eva Braun of Liberal Fascism.
Linda McCartney is the Magda Goebbels of Liberal Fascism.
Mark David Chapman is the Graf von Stauffenberg of Liberal Fascism.
February 1, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Yoko Ono is the Dwight Eisenhower of Liberal Fascism.
February 1, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Dr. Clomclop:
Agreed. LF is the Best. Abuse. of. post. modernism. ever.
/morty
February 1, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Here come old Doughbob
He come droolin’ up slowly
He got cheeto fingers
He one rolly poly
He got flab down to his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
(There’s no point in changing the last line from the original.)
February 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Sorry. Lennon’s already taken:
http://www.marx-brothers.org/listening/covers/1025_1356.jpg
Jim Morrison was Hitler. Which, of course, only serves to prove Doughbob’s point. Whatever it may have been.
February 3, 2008 at 12:15 am
I thought Robert Samuelson was the walrus.
February 5, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Late to the party as usual…isn’t it *Die* Valkyrie?
February 7, 2008 at 7:01 am
OK, but who was the walrus?
I told you about the walrus and me-man
You know that we’re as close as can be-man.
Well, here’s another clue for you all,
The walrus was Paul . . . Krugman.
February 17, 2008 at 12:22 am
Look in the fold-out included in the Sgt. Peppers album…there is a picture of John in a bus and through the window you can see the initials of his killer on the sign, saying that it’s the best way for Lennon to go…the plot was in place long beforehand…hmmm..maybe some moneyhandler had it all laid out?